Populate
['pɒpjʊleɪt] or ['pɑpjulet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) fill with inhabitants; 'populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting'.
(verb.) inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; 'People lived in Africa millions of years ago'; 'The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted'; 'this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean'; 'deer are populating the woods'.
狄伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Populous.
(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
(v. i.) To propagate.
整理:默尔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. People.
埃尔韦拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- By the way, how did you populate this new Rome of yours? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- And away went the coach up Whitechapel, to the admiration of the whole population of that pretty densely populated quarter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A country populated by pure logicians and mathematical scientists would, I believe, produce few inventions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Streams which flow through populated regions are apt to be contaminated, and hence water from them requires public filtration. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In time, I populated Melnos accorded to my mind, and then set my new subjects to work on dwellings and industries. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Their world is not populated by men and women, but by a Unity that is Permanent. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
校對:米利森特